Another One Down

Onetime Senate minority leader candidate Sen. Neil Breslin, D-Delmar, has been officially bounced from his position as ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee by the man who won the leadership fight, Sen. Malcolm Smith, D-Queens.

Breslin’s replacement is Sen. Bill Stachowski, D-Buffalo, who was a big Smith supporter during the power struggle this fall.

Six members played integral roles in Smith’s ascendancy, including Sen. Efrain Gonzalez Jr., D-Bronx, whose legal troubles might serve as an impediment to any rewards the new leader might be doling out.Â